I find this clip amazing and unsettling. I’ve not read David and Goliath, the book they discuss here. But according to reviews and Gladwell’s own description, it follows the template of his prior books, which mine social science and psychology to create seemingly counterintuitive just-so stories about how people behave and society works. There’s often […]
Continue reading →I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most of my attention last year went into pitching and then beginning work on The Orchid and the Dandelion, I spent a lot of time […]
Continue reading →Malcolm Gladwell has roiled things up with an article arguing that fans of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook are wildly overstating the powers of these tools to change things. As an example, he uses the civil rights movement as it rose out of the Montgomery bus strike and (more immediately) the Greensboro Four, […]
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